Stimulated dopamine overflow and alpha-synuclein expression in the nucleus accumbens core distinguish rats bred for differential ethanol preference

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1168-1176

  Pelkonen, Anssi ^a   Hiltunen, Mikko ^a   Kiianmaa, Kalervo ^b   Yavich, Leonid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

synuclein; alko alchohol rats; dopamine overflow; in vivo voltammetry; re uptake; striatum

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ALPHA SYNUCLEIN; DOPAMINE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POTENTIOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; INBRED RAT STRAIN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REWARD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME;

RATTUS;

ALCOHOL-INDUCED DISORDERS, NERVOUS SYSTEM; ALPHA-SYNUCLEIN; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DOPAMINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REWARD; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77954731843     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2010.06844.x     Document Type: Article

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